satiety

• saciety (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French satieté, from Latin satietas.

• IPA^(key): /səˈtaɪ.ə.ti/, /səˈtaɪ.ɪ.ti/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /səˈsaɪ.ɪ.ti/

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• Rhymes: -aɪɪti

satiety (usually uncountable, plural satieties)

1. The state of being satiated.

   Eating half of that loaf of bread has left me in a state of utter satiety.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 277:

     Satiety and mortification are the extremes of vanity, and both are equally attended by envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness.

   • 1995, Britt Marie Burton-Freeman, Satiety Induced by Fat, Carbohydrate and Protein: A Potential Role for Cholecystokinin (CCK) and Serotonin (5HT):

     Surgical techniques have also been instrumental in understanding the pathways leading to satiety...

   • 2010, Egidio Del Fabbro, Wendy Demark-wahnefried, Vickie Baracos, Nutrition and the Cancer Patient, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 193:

     On the other hand, early satiety did not correlate with delayed gastric emptying...

• satiatedness
• satiation

• hunger, appetite

• satiate
• satiated
• insatiety